A robotics researcher has been announced as one of the recipients of the 2009 Leibniz Prize – the most prestigious German research prize awarding up to €2.5 million per award. Wolfram Burgard, ...

Freiburg computer scientist elected president of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (IEEE RAS) has chosen Freiburg Professor of Informatics Wolfram ...

You have probably used your math background if you have been playing with robots for awhile. However, unless you have been doing video processing, you may not have been able to take advantage of that ...

One reason humans fear robots — and autonomous technologies in general — is the potential for them to spiral out of our control (perhaps taking over the world while they’re at it). Since we don’t yet ...

Robots have a wide range of applications from assisting humans around the factory, home, work office, in the field and more. But if we are to rely on them for assistive tasks, their perception ...